Jonah Comstock
The Texas office of the Attorney General weighed in on a motion to dismiss Teladoc's antitrust suit against the Texas State Medical Board on the grounds that there is, in fact, state supervision of the medical board which would make it a state agency under law and therefore immune to suit.
Teva Pharmaceuticals will acquire Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gecko Health Innovations (previously known as GeckoCap), a smart inhaler company.
Iodine, the crowdsourced drug review startup that launched last year, is continuing to focus on antidepressants.
Merck Sharpe and Dohme (MSD), the UK subsidiary of US pharma company Merck and Co.
A relatively large randomized control trial in Australia has shown that a text messaging program can improve not only health behaviors, but actually affect health outcomes.
Glooko and Joslin's HypoMap
Joslin Diabetes Center is running a small trial to pilot test a mobile health app and an online nutrition education platform for people with Type 1 diabetes, according to a ClinicalTrials.
Whoop, a Boston-based wearable company working on a device for athletes, announced an additional $12 million in funding as it prepares to officially launch its Whoop Strap device and performance optimization system.
What expectations about technology will the next generation of physicians have? That's the question Epocrates set out to answer with its Future Physicians of America survey of more than 1,000 medical students.
Noom Coach, the company's current consumer wellness app.
Leaf Healthcare, Pleasanton, California-based wireless patient monitoring company, has raised $3.